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The travels of Capts. Lewis & Clarke : from St. Louis by way of the Missouri and Columbia rivers, to the Pacific Ocean, performed in the years 1804, 1805, & 1806, by order of the government of the United States : containing the delineations of the manners, custome, religio, &c. of the Indians, compiled from various authentic sources, and original documents : and a summary of the statistical view of the Indian nations, from the official communication of Meriwether Lewis : illustrated with a map of the country, inhabited by the western tribes of Indians (1809)


Author: Lewis, Meriwether, 1774-1809; Clark, William, 1770-1838; Mackenzie, Alexander, Sir, 1763-1820; United States. President (1801-1809 : Jefferson); Jay I. Kislak Collection (Library of Congress) DLC
Subject: Lewis and Clark Expedition (1804-1806); Indians of North America; Cree language
Publisher: London : Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme
Year: 1809
Possible copyright status: NOT_IN_COPYRIGHT
Language: English
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Book from the collections of: Oxford University
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Notes: This work, purporting to be the account of Lewis and Clark's expedition, is in fact merely a compilation of bits and pieces already in print, including parts of Jefferson's Message of 1806, William Clark's letter from Saint Louis, segments of Patrick Gass's diary, a careful plagiarization of portions of Jonathan Carver's Travels, first published in 1778, and sections of Alexander Mackenzie's Voyages. Cf. Wagner-Camp.

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This work, purporting to be the account of Lewis and Clark's expedition, is in fact merely a compilation of bits and pieces already in print, including parts of Jefferson's Message of 1806, William Clark's letter from Saint Louis, segments of Patrick Gass's diary, a careful plagiarization of portions of Jonathan Carver's Travels, first published in 1778, and sections of Alexander Mackenzie's Voyages. Cf. Wagner-Camp

Includes vocabulary of the Knisteneaux (Cree) Indian language

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Wagner-Camp (4th ed.)

Provenance: Gift of the Jay I. Kislak Foundation


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